Debian Sarge
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| I was running Testing. |
   54% | 622 votes |
| I will upgrade soon. |
6% | 78 votes |
| I've upgraded already. |
32% | 372 votes |
| I will upgrade later. |
5% | 65 votes |
| Total 1143 votes |
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Jun 2005 at 10:24
Half and half.
New servers were on Sarge already, older servers are still on Woody.
New servers were on Sarge already, older servers are still on Woody.
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Ditto, though new desktops may run Etch.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Posted by Anonymous (220.237.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Jun 2005 at 10:49
Missing option Yay sarge is out the door now sid can get xorg and kde34 Who gives a rats arse about stable?
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Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Jun 2005 at 11:57
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People who need to run stable servers?
Steve
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Posted by Anonymous (198.173.xx.xx) on Tue 14 Jun 2005 at 15:19
I run sid and it has never crashed on me.....
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Posted by Anonymous (193.237.xx.xx) on Wed 15 Jun 2005 at 07:09
Stable isn't about "stability" (well not exclusively), it is about the chances of the upgrade process going tits up and leaving your machine needing the big reinstall, and the chances of finding a show stopping bug after an upgrade.
Most GNU/Linux boxes will be 'stable' if they are running a mature kernel, and properly tested hardware and drivers for said hardware.
That doesn't mean you can reliably install mod_perl for Apache 2, and expect all the dependencies and libraries to just resolve themselves without manual intervention in every GNU/Linux distribution, and the resulting configuration to "just work".
Debian stable will do that (well it is at least suppose to), errors and ommissions excepted, Debian testing probably will, Debian unstable may well not one day, and may well do it the next - it is anyones guess.
I think the choice of labels confuses way too many people.
On the upside my mate took great delight advising his boss, after getting some grief for deploying "testing" in a big operational role (they probably only got away with it because Microsoft were competing with an unsupported, prerelease version of their product), to update the documentation to say they are using the latest "stable" version.
Most GNU/Linux boxes will be 'stable' if they are running a mature kernel, and properly tested hardware and drivers for said hardware.
That doesn't mean you can reliably install mod_perl for Apache 2, and expect all the dependencies and libraries to just resolve themselves without manual intervention in every GNU/Linux distribution, and the resulting configuration to "just work".
Debian stable will do that (well it is at least suppose to), errors and ommissions excepted, Debian testing probably will, Debian unstable may well not one day, and may well do it the next - it is anyones guess.
I think the choice of labels confuses way too many people.
On the upside my mate took great delight advising his boss, after getting some grief for deploying "testing" in a big operational role (they probably only got away with it because Microsoft were competing with an unsupported, prerelease version of their product), to update the documentation to say they are using the latest "stable" version.
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Posted by Anonymous (155.38.xx.xx) on Fri 17 Jun 2005 at 20:46
I'm currently running Sarge now. Never got sucked into the hype that Ubuntu has generated and I trust only the Debian repositories. Here's an interesting project being worked on geared for newer users.
www.debianpure.com
www.debianpure.com
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Posted by Anonymous (200.18.xx.xx) on Sun 19 Jun 2005 at 13:05
I always had a problem with lilo after upgrade. I need execute the command lilo after upgrade, if not I can't initialize the system, and I need use a rescue disk.
One more question, why debian Sarge don't provide a option for rescue? It's very useful!!!!
Regards
One more question, why debian Sarge don't provide a option for rescue? It's very useful!!!!
Regards
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apt-get install grub-disk.
It'll give you a grub iso you can burn to a cd and keep handy.
Works for me...
It'll give you a grub iso you can burn to a cd and keep handy.
Works for me...
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Posted by Anonymous (62.254.xx.xx) on Fri 24 Jun 2005 at 17:30
the sarge netinstaller (not sure about the full cds) when booted using 'expert' or 'expert26' give you the option of opening a root shell which you can then chroot your existing partition and grub-install or reinstall lilo etc. I believe woody has a 'rescue root=' style boot prompt but in sarge i use the above process. sno
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Posted by Anonymous (194.200.xx.xx) on Wed 29 Jun 2005 at 14:40
I run all my server on "unstable" - never let me down yet *touchwood*! I have a mixture of RHEL, Debian Unstable, Slackware and Solaris servers across a number of co-lo's - never had any problems with bleeding edge releases as yet...
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Poll suggestion:
Windowing System:
XFree66
Xorg
curses
Windowing system?
Windowing System:
XFree66
Xorg
curses
Windowing system?
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